About Me!

Hello! My name is Dana, but you can call me StrawberyTart! Why StrawberryTart? Don’t worry it’s a short one: my dear friend Nicole gave me this nickname many years ago due to my natural red hair and my spunky attitude. So, when it came time to name my first blog that is what I had to go with. Two years and three blogs later you have found me here at Wooden Spoon in Hand. This blog was started to entertain my foody side, but has since turned into a place for me to complete Number 86 on my buck list. One cook book – The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook -from cover to cover- I will cook, bake and probably burn all of the recipes created by one of my favorite people Paula Deen. Welcome to my kitchen. Pull up a chair and don’t mind the three dogs in the kitchen with me!

You see – Paula is the one who started all of this – well restarted – you can read my first cooking post here.

Things will change just a bit from where I started with the blog. First, in honor of Paula’s talent I will not, at anytime, post full recipes on this blog. I will link where possible, but if she doesn’t have it published on the web, then I apologize – you will have to just go buy the cookbook – it’s worth it.

I will do my best to post pictures, but there will be times – like today – when I decide it may be best not to show the mess I made out of a recipe.

The family (JAG & Shelby) actually loved these. I of course loved the Mac & Cheese because this was not my first time to make this dish, but the pork chops were a little tough. This is not Paula’s fault. I attribute it more to the person who selected my pork chops – I still don’t think they were center cut- sorry honey.

3. Praline Pumpkin Pie – found on Page 138 & 139

I have to admit that I did not read this recipe all the way through before I made started. I didn’t realize it had a merginue top, that wasn’t a deal killer, but I just wasn’t in the mood to deal with it, so JAG got a Praline Pumpkin Pie minus the Merguin – I don’t think I heard him complain.